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Parliamentary sketches from our parliamentary sketch-writer
Liar! Liar! House on fire?
Never mind whether PMQs matter – does Parliament currently matter?
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The Book of JO’B
James O’Brien’s aggressive incuriosity is becoming ever more embattled as his worldview crumbles
The rise and fall of Nicola Sturgeon
The former SNP leader squandered her talents in a classic tale of hubris
Fear and fury in Belfast
Violence spiralled out of control in Northern Ireland in the aftermath of a shocking crime
The screaming spires
Oxford University must clarify where it stands on academic freedom
Nigel Farage, community leader
The logic of multiculturalism is turning on its architects
The artist formerly known as Nero
The life and death of Rome’s last Julio-Claudian emperor revealed every Roman fear about the dangers of one-man rule
Countryside counter-attack
A ban on trail hunting reveals a government more interested in cultural punishment than rural survival
Defending liberalism from its defenders
Liberalism should mean anything but a more interventionist state
A moment of profound national unseriousness
Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch know that the world faces crises — but are they part of the crises?
The enduring fascination of Richard Nixon
Why America’s most contradictory president still exerts a strange grip on the political imagination.
Knowingly crass and conflicted
This American culture is hegemonic because even to steal from it is to propel it
Supernatural delight
Religion cannot be reduced to dry abstractions
Failing to face the facts
The Tories’ rosy view of their recent election drubbing reveals a reluctance to have the tough intellectual debate needed to secure the party’s future
A country at war with itself
Washington politics can
best be understood through the history
of bitter factional in-fi ghting within both
the Democratic and Republican parties
Nowhere left to go
Labour is running out of cash, authority and time.
The original sin
It should not have been difficult to see that there were problems with appointing Peter Mandelson